Category: Reconciliation & Dialogue

By John Backman We all cherish the picture of Jesus eating with the “disreputables”—the tax collectors and prostitutes and other sinners. But what do we do when the offensive offend us? Our first night...

The Struggle with Tokenism by Mihee Kim-Kort “Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.” Mary Daly, radical feminist philosopher and theologian I...

New Copernicans are those who embrace a new and emerging social imaginary that is post-Enlightenment and post-secular in its ethos. Carried predominately by millennials, the New Copernican perspective is both the hope for the...

by Jan Johnson Imagine three women standing in a town square, facing each other and reflecting on the current Middle East situation. These three women have just come from their respective places of worship. The oldest woman is...

Beyond deadlocked arguments by Rob Barrett When people disagree, what is there to talk about? When we invite people to dialogue across deep difference, sometimes they say, “What will we do after I say...

by Doug Baker In 1941 a passenger ship called the Zamzam left New York harbor carrying over 200 people, including a group of missionaries headed to remote destinations in Africa. Some among these were...

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